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Crown Royal Gives Newest Whisky The Marquis Touch

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Crown Royal blended Canadian whisky has released their Marquis blend, which has been finished in Caribbean rum casks and will be available in select states in the USA. Crown Royal Marquis was finished in Caribbean rum casks, bottled at 40% alcohol by volume [80 proof] and is said to produce notes of brown sugar, dates, […]

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Amber Lane Debuts Chartreuse Casked Whisky

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Australia-based Amber Lane distillery has released a whisky aged in a monk-produced yellow Chartreuse cask – Rue de La Chartreuse – which the distillery claims to be the ‘first of its kind’. Chartreuse is a French herbal liqueur traditionally created by Catholic order of monks called Carthusians and Amber Lane’s rendition has been officially approved […]

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That Boutique-y Whisky Company Trials Trio Of Whiskies

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Just in time for the Kentucky Derby, UK-based independent bottler That Boutique-y Whisky Company has released three whiskies – an eight-year-old English rye, a 10-year-old Kentucky Bourbon and a 21-year-old Irish whiskey – to join their core range of one Canadian corn and four Scotch whiskies. All three were bottled at 45.8% alcohol by volume […]

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The Macallan Branches Out To Offer Tree Of Life

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Speyside distillery The Macallan has released a pair of limited edition single malts – The Tree of Life and Art of the Flower – celebrating Scottish artist Charles Rennie Mackintosh. The 46-year-old The Tree of Life by The Macallan originated in two sherry-seasoned casks, was bottled at 46.2% alcohol by volume [92.4 proof] and is […]

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Ardbeg Unleashes Smokiverse

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Islay-based Ardbeg Distillery has released Smokiverse – their 2025 Fèis Ìle special whisky bottling for “Ardbeg Day” – an annual celebration held on the last Saturday of Islay’s Festival of Music and Malt, Fèis Ìle – which will take place this year from May 23-31, 2025. The Ardbeg 2025 limited edition single malt Smokiverse, emanates […]

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Tobermory Distillery Unveils 10-Year-Old Ledaig

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Isle of Mull-based Tobermory Distillery has released Ledaig Hebridean Moon – their first cask-strength Ledaig 10-year-old peated single malt – inspired by the Isle of Mull’s ancient moon-tracking Baliscate Stones and the first aged whisky release emanating from the distillery’s newest 11-year-old stills. Tobermory Distillery’s Ledaig Hebridean Moon was matured for more than a decade […]

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Cutty Sark Debuts Ginger Ale Highball RTD

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Old school brand Cutty Sark Blended Scotch Whisky has introduced their first ready-to-drink (RTD) product – The Cutty Sark & Ginger Ale Highball – in time for summer. Marking the brand’s first venture into the growing RTD market, the new Cutty Sark & Ginger Ale Highball offers the pairing of Cutty Sark’s original blended Scotch […]

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The English Distillery Releases V-E Day Commemorative Whisky

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The English Distillery, has collaborated with the charity Walking with the Wounded (WWTW) to launch a single malt whisky to celebrate the 80th anniversary of VE Day [Victory in Europe Day, originally celebrated on May 8, 1945 to celebrate the formal end of World War Two in Europe following Germany’s surrender the previous day]. The […]

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Compass Box Goes Scot-Free

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London-based Compass Box has created Scot-Free – the ‘world’s first English vatted malt whisky’ – by using whiskies from six English distilleries to create the whisky. The six distilleries Compass Box used for the whisky are: Copper Rivet Distillery, Cotswolds Distillery, East London Liquor Co, Spirit of Yorkshire Distillery, The English Distillery and White Peak […]

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Redbreast Has Quite The Find With Andrew Scott

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Redbreast has ‘Quite the Find’ for their newest promotional campaign, enlisting the aid of Irish actor Andrew Scott [“Fleabag”] for their Irish single pot still whiskey. The new global campaign features the Bafta Award-winning Irish actor encouraging audiences via voice-over and meaningful glances to avoid the beetroot and to dig deeper to unearth ‘something amazing’ […]

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